INTERACT FORUM
More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: tombert on October 28, 2007, 01:21:50 pm
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Feature Idea?
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folder.jpg is a standard, I have never heard of any player using a folder.avi
I can't see how or why you would want or need this.
maybe if you elaborate you can convince someone.
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"... I've never heard a player ..."
Out there a many players which support not even half the features MC does - isn't that the point why we're all using MC?
Instead of a still picture there could be video playing - I think that might give a nice feature.
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When would it get played?
Part of the reason for Folder.jpg is it gets shown
in parent folders in Explorer
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I think what tombert's trying to say is that MC would show a video thumbnail instead of a still when browsing the library. This would require quite a few resources I expect (depending on how many thumbnails are on display at any one time). It's an interesting idea though, I wonder if it would work visually.
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My initial idea was not to show videos playing when in Explorer View, instead I thought about Theater Views Visualization. But of course the idea fits into more subjects ...
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I think this is an interesting idea... Don't know how it would work with: (a) "thumbnail" generation resources, and (b) viewing performance (multiple video streams can be hurtful on a CPU). But it sure would look cool!